All Things, Really

[thesenseinnonsense]

Can you imagine when Clary or Simon figures out that Alec is just.... Living out a regency dime novel, how fucking funny that would be. Like.

Simon: No because think about it, a repressive society, an inexperienced heroine who's been forced to hide her sexuality, a rich rake who's in a local position of power---

Alec: I'm also in a position of power!

Simon: Yeah, some heroines are like, duchesses and stuff too, but they don't have any real power due to the crippling weight of societal expectations---

Alec: I'm going to kill you.

Simon: but anyway, the rake who's known for throwing these like, elaborate balls, who's closed his heart off to love---NO WAIT. MAGNUS IS MISTER DARCY. Like "I'm ignoring the inferiority of your birth" but instead of classism it's that your parents were magical Nazis.

Clary: You know, I think Magnus is more of a Bingley, I'm pretty sure he was into Alec from like, Day 1.

Simon: Have you seen Mr. Darcy? No way that man was not thirsting after our girl Elizabeth Bennet from like, the first time she sasses him back.

Clary: No, but hold on, I think Jane fits way better, the one who has all of their parents expectations on her to marry well, I mean, Elizabeth is more like Izzy or Jace if anything, like fuck the rules, stick it to the man vibes.

Simon: you realize. This makes YOU Mr. Darcy.

Clary: ...

Clary: Let's go back to Alec being a regency dime novel heroine.

Alec: I hate both of you.

Simon: Honestly, half of it is just how great of a dime novel hero Magnus makes. Like he's rakish and rich, and looks like he'd pull off a cravat. And he's always talking about how much he wants to "ravish" Alec. But their entire love story fits the plot honestly. Hero introduces heroine to the world of desire and passion, and heroine has to choose between the life she's always wanted for herself, or this sexy man with rippling abs who society doesn't want her to have.

Alec: talk about Magnus's body again and I'll find a stake and use you as a wall decoration.

Simon: ...I guess he's a little more violent than most regency heroines but there are variations to the genre.

[sleepy-bebby]

“You’re not for the streets Pricilla.”

[buttercup-gamer]

Absolutely

[guiltyidealist]

It's three rat thursday

[guiltyidealist]

[guiltyidealist]

Oh god it's already begun

[guiltyidealist]

WAIT FOR REAL???

[guiltyidealist]

y'all they're right.. next Feb 29th 3🐀Thurs isn't till 2052

and there'll be another in 2080

p.s. so far they're happening in 28-year increments-- according to the pattern, the next would be in 2108. but it's... not??? 2108's February 29th falls on a Wednesday,????

the next Feb 29th 3🐀Thurs isn't till 2120-- 40 years after the last??

[rat-council-official]

official Three Rat Thursday post

[sharkface]

They are already selling data to midjourney, and it's very likely your work is already being used to train their models because you have to OPT OUT of this, not opt in. Very scummy of them to roll this out unannounced.

[writterings]

here's some instructions for anyone who doesn't know how to opt out:

login in on desktop, it's not available on mobile yet

click "Account"

click on your blog

go to "Blog Settings"

go to "Visibility"

Scroll down to the bottom option

turn the toggle ON, not off

you will have to do this individually for each sideblog you have too, no way to do it for each account in one go

[blues-n-funk]

i'm so hungry but i can't eat. my stomach is in knots and chewing is so hard. i'm so tired but i can't sleep. all i want is to fall asleep. i lay in bed at night crying waiting to fall asleep. i have never felt so depressed, anxious, nauseous, and helpless as i do right now. and i'm so tired of feeling this way. it feels like this is never going to end and that i will feel like this forever. the only thing i feel grateful for is how i have never once wanted to take my own life. i just want to stop feeling like this. i just want to be able to sleep. i just want to be able to eat. i just want to stop crying. i just want it all to be not so hard.

[bigbigbigtruck]

eagerly awaiting the day daniel radcliffe, elijah wood, and robert pattinson just make the most fucked up bizarre unmarketable film together

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

i think it's fucked up that there are plants that decided they wanted to eat meat

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

a plant's job is literally to just exist but the venus flytrap chose violence

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

what if i gently laid an uncooked steak on the soil for it to absorb

[iridescentjaq]

my tree biology teacher fed her calcium-deficient tree a whole-ass bbq rib bone - she stuck it in the ground near the base of the tree (after eating the meat off of it), and when she came back to collect it to show the tree biology class it was GONE

the tree had grown a root up through the center of it & out through the sides

also there’s an old story about a man who was buried beneath a tree, and when they went to exhume the body it had been completely absorbed by the tree’s roots- you could see the shape of the body in the way the roots grew, splitting up for clearly defined arms and legs. trees will absolutely eat a steak if you bury it & they need the nutrients.

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

that’s horrifying! thank you

[the-punforgiven]

I wish wizards were real so bad imagine coming out of a wal mart and seeing some guy with long robes and a big hat in the parking lot surrounded by wacky particle effects screaming some shit like "By the moon and the starlight, by the shield and the sword, I summon to me, my Honda Accord!" And then just getting into his car and driving off

[whetstonefires]

so there's basically two reasons he would need to do this and they're both funny

his magical honda unsummoned while he was in Walmart; this means it's not even a real car and could look like anything and he picked or was forced somehow to pick a Honda Accord

his normal honda was left someplace while he came to Walmart by other means, and he can teleport the car to him more easily than he can teleport himself places

[nucleariguana]

there's also the idea that he drove to walmart in his honda accord, and then when he got out he either forgot where he parked or wanted to skip like 20 seconds of walking so he just summons it right in front of the door

[petterwass]

To not have to find a parking space, most wizards keep their Honda Accords in a extradimensional oubliette when not driving. This also saves on garage space.

[christ-chan-official]

Clearly the wizard had to summon his Honda Accord because someone stole it while he was shopping. The carjacker is now tumbling violently down the freeway like a source engine ragdoll

[rathayibacter]

spells that instantly summon vehicles are pretty elaborate, and have a high risk of clipping into something and causing serious damage. instead, imagine this:

the wizard casts his grand spell, the light around him flares, and then, across the parking lot, you see his honda accord begin slowly and carefully driving itself to his location. this takes several minutes.

[aquawyrm]

So, he definitely forgot where he parked, then.

[askaniritual]

i just don’t think “is dude gender neutral” is that productive of a conversation because a word can be gendered and still used regardless of gender. i call my male friends girlypop and my female friends man but i don’t think anybody would agree that those are somehow not gendered terms.

the real question is just “would you be willing to apologize and stop using a word if somebody told you it made them uncomfortable?” the answer to which in a surprising number of cases is no mostly because it seems like overall ppl r more upset abt getting accused of transphobia than they are abt being transphobic

[olderthannetfic]

Best fandom history commentary ever, courtesy of @tardistara

[i-call-me-clarence]

For your viewing pleasure:

[olderthannetfic]

P.S. For people who are not 40 have not watched The X-Files, that other guy in the red speedo scene is Mulder’s new partner, the apparent woobie whom Mulder is a jerk to because he’s not Scully… but who later turns out to be a Secret Villain.

1 guess what the big slash ship was back then.

[thebkwyrm]

And the Secret Villain (with tragic backstory) kissed Mulder in one scene! In an angry non-romantic way but whooooo, the fic it generated.

[olderthannetfic]

Um, excuse me, you can’t just SAY that. The Youth need PICS!

(aka I am way too lazy to go find X-Files screencaps myself.)

[thebkwyrm]

It’s a SUPER DARK scene so the caps are awful - plus caps can’t get across just how startling it was to see Krycek pointing a handgun at Mulder, threatening his life, and then just….. lunge forward, and kiss Mulder on the cheek. Because this was 1998 and one of the most popular shows on TV and you just didn’t SEE THAT. So here’s a GIF instead.

Edited for @olderthannetfic

[olderthannetfic]

Dear fandom: please enjoy this EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL.

[tygermama]

@nanners-the-great

[eiael-thinks]

It was such a cultural phenomenon even The Simpsons had their take on it:

[treesofgreen]

The Secret Villain up there is also the first character to be called a “rat man” by a fandom afaik.

[olderthannetfic]

It’s because we couldn’t spell.

‘Ratboy’ was much easier than ‘Krycek’.

[ampervadasz]

[tay-swifts]

KRISTEN STEWART Rolling Stone Magazine (Feb 14, 2024)

[greelin]

“counterspell” or as i like to call it “Nuh uh”

[greelin]

wagging my finger and everything

[athelind]

talk to the mage hand

[tentacleteapot]

[caats]

[greelin]

being alive is great because there are so many different vegetables you can sauté. but then there are also the horrors

[yves-and-scessernee]

with faith and perseverance, one day we will sauté the horrors

[hugtheteadrinkthekitten]

i love this website

[forgotten-tuesdays]

reblog to sauté the horrors

[still-searching-for-something]

I don't think goyim properly understand the fear and change that the wave of antisemitism currently taking place in the wake of the October 7th massacre has induced in the Jewish community.

In a wide-lens view, Jews have become a 1000% more wary and introspective. This isn't limited to diaspora Jews--the headlines pouring out of Israel until October 7th have been of division, polarization, and conflict. Conflict over the 2018 Nation-State Law. Over Bibi's premiership. Over the judicial reform laws. Over the Orthodox Rabbinate. Over this. Over that.

But Israeli society is more unified than ever right now. The judicial reform laws were shelved shortly after the war began and the protests ended on October 8th. Some of it is the rally around the flag effect, yes, and will probably fade as time passes--politics never stops--but the era of Israelis being at one another's throats? Of forgetting that we are all one people and we are all under attack? Gone. It died on October 7th.

In the Diaspora, Jews are once again asking themselves the question--will I need to flee? Guys, a fifth of Gen Z--my generation, that I attend university with--believes the Holocaust was a myth. Two thirds of them think Jews are oppressors. That's terrifying. And the reason we don't take comfort in people saying, 'They're kids with no political power.' is that that won't be true forever. Today's slacktivists who casually say that Israel has no right to exist are tomorrows lawmakers. They will grow up and set policy.

We don't know if they'll grow out of it. I pray to HaShem that they will, but how do I know if they will?

And that's tomorrow's world. Today's world is already bad enough. I don't wear my Star of David necklace to the self-defense classes I've started taking because being surrounded by burly dudes learning how to fight people better isn't a great place to potentially learn that I'm surrounded by antisemites.

Jews--in the year 2024--are being doxxed, seen their homes and synagogues vandalized and threatened, walk past Palestine protests screaming for the death of Zionists, and antisemitism has increased in the United States alone by more than 400%. It's worse elsewhere--Turkish shop owners have been barring Jews from their stores and France has seen antisemitic incidents increase by 1000%. Jews have been leaving social media sites like Tumblr, Reddit, Tik Tok, and Twitter in droves, chased away by the constant, unceasing stream of anti-Jewish hate.

Gentiles need to understand that their words and actions have very real consequences. Jews are not dumb. We're not imagining things. We aren't 'getting our just desserts'. Our fears are grounded not only by historical context but by our current, everyday, lived realities. To gentiles, reading 'antisemitism has gone up by x percent' is a factoid. To us, it is a serious threat and a deep concern.

[strawlessandbraless]

With all the different versions of Dean and Cas out there. Who would be the horniest destiel pairing?

Demon Dean and Leviathan Cas

French Mistake Cas & Hunter Corp Dean

Endverse Dean and Steve

Edwardian Lady Cas and Michael Dean

Honey Cas and Stanford Era Dean

Dog Day Afternoon Dean and Godstiel

Emmanuel and Dean Smith

Mark of Cain Dean and Endverse Cas

Other (leave your answer in tags)

Voting ended onFeb 21, 2024

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